Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces, considering such figures, thinking of the 33 German cities that have been hit worse than Coventry, admitted frankly that it made him wonder: how could the Germans stand it? Now that air power has probably lost its chance to prove itself the all-powerful weapon, the invasion will show what it has done. Most airmen are sure it has bled Germany white...
...There is much talk of Hitler's secret weapons, but the British weapon that will defeat him isn't secret-it is Guts...
...night. But the strategic bombers would no longer have the show entirely to themselves, to put their theories, tactics and tools to the only real test. What they had accomplished by that day would have to stand as the interim report on air power used as a single weapon against a big and highly developed industrial nation...
...remembered that Jake Fitch was still commanding minelayers and destroyers when early birdmen like Jack Towers (now deputy commander in the Pacific under Admiral Chester Nimitz) and Marc Mitscher (the Navy's No. 1 carrier task-force commander in the Pacific) were briskly testing the wings of the weapon destined to revolutionize naval warfare...
Weather Is a Weapon. The American military weather staff has many secret techniques in addition to the analogue. Head man in Britain is a professional army officer of 34 who studied at Caltech, now has on his staff one of his former professors. Their coordinated report is the first thing Major General Frederick L. Anderson, U.S. Deputy Chief of Air Operations, demands each morning. The head weatherman is also attached to the Supreme Allied Commander's headquarters and, in daily conferences with the British, contributes to the master report of Army, Navy and Air Forces experts for General Eisenhower...